Dr. Iwona Kurz: Confusion of Languages. Cult Films of Marek Piwowski and Janusz Kondratiuk and their Contexts

Prof. Dr. Ewa Mazierska: The Polish New Wave between the East and the West

Adam is a gay priest who works in a young offenders’ institution, where he finds it difficult to distract himself with pious thoughts. He is particularly fascinated and unsettled by the taciturn Łukasz. When praying doesn’t help, he... > more

Transnistria was still part of the Soviet Union when German and Romanian troops invaded in 1941. Along with many Jewish deportees, some 25,000 Roma were transported there from Romania. The prisoners were interred in appalling conditions, for the... > more

PRESENTATION: MOVEAST WORKSHOP
Moveast Workshop is an international film-culture project aiming to compile a new, comparative history of film in Central and Eastern Europe. Such an endeavour seems highly relevant in view of the economic,... > more

Both as a director and a cameraman – on films such as Želimir Žilnik’s RANI RADOVI – Karpo Godina counts among the foremost figures of Yugoslav and Slovene cinema over the past 40 years. In tribute to his seventieth birthday the... > more

In 2008 and 2009 several Roma villages in Hungary were attacked by far-right extremists. Six people died, among them a five-year-old child. The film documents the two-and-a-half-year trial of four suspects against whom a case was brought. Because... > more

Ten years after graduating in medicine, the former students meet up again. One face is missing – and a group of friends decide to visit its owner, who is now a physician in the countryside. Travelling by freight train they joke about the... > more

On a cold winter evening the patrons of a cool nightclub are dancing, drinking and flirting away. When two young men on a night out meet two young women, the foursome’s interaction with other guests spins an intricate web of relationships... > more

Nikolaj Nikitin in discussion with Małgorzata Szumowska > more

The meeting between two men who were students together – one has made a career as a scientist, the other has withdrawn to the countryside – demonstrates two attitudes to life: one is active, the other contemplative. The latter’s... > more

After Luka’s mother gave him away he spent nine years in a children’s home. His father died in a car accident when he was small. He’s 19 now and expected to stand on his own feet. He moves into a tiny flat and finds work in an... > more

A blasé filmmaker, a young actress, an arduous shoot, a producer who is not amused: the plot of Porumboiu’s latest film is hardly new, the filmmaking process has been the subject of countless films. But the finely honed formal devices and... > more

Artist versus man of state – the antagonism is as old as the ages. Except now we’re in Belarus, where many things are different, including the history of official policies relating to images. The head of state is Alexander Lukashenko,... > more

A rain-swept beach in November. Pebbles hastily lined into the shape of football goals, two bodies come together and find love. Sandro, aged 40, tells Manana he’s never felt so safe in somebody’s arms, and asks her to stay by his side.... > more

A rain-swept beach in November. Pebbles hastily lined into the shape of football goals, two bodies come together and find love. Sandro, aged 40, tells Manana he’s never felt so safe in somebody’s arms, and asks her to stay by his side.... > more

In her fashionable blue coat, Lena doesn’t fit into the forbidding grey world of a dilapidated military base in northern Russia. It’s the height of polar winter and the Kola Peninsula a snowy wasteland. Lena is the new wife of a... > more

Pre-World-Championship-Special
A tiny Georgian village is in the grip of football fever at the beginning of the 20th century. While the men blithely go about setting up a team and visiting the beach for daily training sessions... > more

Stations in the life of a fledgling natural scientist in search of the meaning of life and death: this initiation process enables Franciszek to break out of his self-imposed isolation and repair his familial bonds. But no sooner has he done so... > more

After Luka’s mother gave him away he spent nine years in a children’s home. His father died in a car accident when he was small. He’s 19 now and expected to stand on his own feet. He moves into a tiny flat and finds work in an... > more

Once the whistle blows on the Georgian football comedy it’s time to choose your team and get on the ball! Take part in the goEast table-football tournament and see whether one of the World Cup qualified countries– Germany, Croatia,... > more

František Vedral’s motto runs: Win any game life throws at you. And life, in the eyes of the fearless mafia boss for whom no goal as unrealistic and every means is justified, is crime. For years he’s nimbly kept one step ahead of the... > more

IN MEMORIAM ALEKSEY BALABANOV
Aleksey Balabanov, one of the most wayward and controversial Russian directors of the post-Soviet era, died aged 54 in May 2013. After initially establishing his filmmaking reputation with literary... > more

VALEA PLÂNGERII / TAL DER TRÄNEN / VALLEY OF SIGHS
JUDGMENT IN HUNGARY / URTEIL IN UNGARN / JUDGMENT IN HUNGARY
CÂND SE LASA SEARA PESTE BUCURETI SAU METABOLISM / WENN ES NACHT WIRD IN BUKAREST ODER METABOLISMUS / WHEN... > more